Day 9 – The Firs t Campaign Setting
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| Stole my allowence for 3 years. |
The vast majority of the games I have run and the very few that I have been part of have been homebrew in nature. Once Eberron was played as a one shot when one of The Brothers Four picked up the 3.5 campaign setting book. After that we never played in the setting again … however, Warforged left a good enough impression on us that they sometimes appeared as very rare, very ancient beings from a long gone and forgotten Age.
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| Best fantasy anime ever! |
Technically you could say that Mystara was our first setting. Although it would not have been the Mystara of TSR. No, as the DM and lover of Capcom’s Dungeons & Dragons games, the Mystara we adventured in as much different. For one, as stated I loved the Capcom arcade games, and my Mystara was pretty much their Mystara with a heavy dose of Lodoss to flesh things out.
Day 10 – First Gaming Magazine You Ever Bought
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| I tihnk it was this one! |
That would be Dragon Magazine. I picked it up at the 1st Cav Mini PX on Fort Hood (the one near the Sports Bar and Library for anyone stationed there!) back in 2000. I cannot remember the issue number or half the articles, but what I do remember is a full page article with pictures of the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons movie and a few pages on the upcoming 3rd edition Rogue. I remember not being able to understand most of what I read at the time due to the simple fact that I played the starter box set twice and that was my only knowledge of D&D at that point.
I actually picked up Dungeon and Dragon every month from that PX up and through leaving Ft. Hood in 2004. True, I only played D&D for a year of that time, but for some reason I enjoyed the articles, comics and reviews of video games and books.
Day 11 – The First Splat Book You Ever Begged Your DM to Approve
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| Much better than the movie! |
I have very rarely been on the player side, however, in the game in which I played Feld the Bard there was a time when I attempted to get a splat book approved … and managed to in a limited way. At the time I was getting rather bored with the limited quality of Feld’s and thus Bard spells available to me at the time. So I spent time looking through all my books (which by that time I had quite a few) and found some interesting Bard spell options in (of all things) The Book of Vile Darkness. I can no longer remember the spell (I think it made people’s heads exploded) but I got it and one other spell from the book approved and started off an actual story event in which Feld was given a book of songs by a Silver Elf of Mu (which were evil and thought to be long dead) in an attempt to corrupt Feld and use him and his music as a weapon.
